Academic air travel has a limited influence on professional success
Academic air travel has a limited influence on professional success
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.04.109
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发表时间：
2019-07-20
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Nabors, Noni
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作者：
Wynes, Seth;Donner, Simon D.;Nabors, Noni
减少航空旅行造成的温室气体排放增长，对于避免气候变化达到危险水平可能至关重要，但一些人认为，频繁的航空旅行对他们的职业成功至关重要。以加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚大学的705名旅行者为样本，我们调查了职业阶段、研究效率、专业领域和其他变量对学术航空旅行及其相关排放的影响。这是研究第一次评估观察到的航空旅行和学业成绩之间的联系。首先，我们比较了不同职业阶段的航空旅行行为，发现在职业生涯开始阶段，个人在航空旅行中的排放量比资深学者要少。其次，由于职业发展可能取决于一名学者建立合作伙伴关系并在海外传播他们的研究成果的能力，我们调查了航空旅行排放与公开可用的文献计量指标之间的关系。我们发现，航空旅行排放与包括Hla(根据学习年龄和学科调整的h指数)在内的学术生产率指标之间没有关系。然而，排放量和工资之间的关系仍然很重要，即使控制了资历。最后，基于这样一个前提，即研究与可持续发展相关的主题的学者可能有更大的责任或动机来减少他们的排放，我们在样本中将165名研究人员编码为“绿色”或“非绿色”。我们发现，绿色和非绿色学者在航空旅行的总排放量或最容易避免的排放类型方面没有显著差异。综上所述，这些初步证据表明，可能存在机会，特别是对于研究与气候和可持续发展相关主题的学者来说，他们可能会减少航空旅行的排放，同时保持富有成效的职业。(C)2019爱思唯尔有限公司。保留所有权利。
Lowering the growth in greenhouse gas emissions from air travel may be critical for avoiding dangerous levels of climate change, and yet some individuals perceive frequent air travel to be critical to their professional success. Using a sample of 705 travellers at the University of British Columbia, we investigated the influence of career stage, research productivity, field of expertise, and other variables on academic air travel and the associated emissions. This is the first time that research has evaluated the link between observed air travel and academic success. First, we compared air travel behaviour at different career stages and found that individuals at the start of their careers were responsible for fewer emissions from air travel than senior academics. Second, since career advancement may depend on an academic's ability to form partnerships and disseminate their research abroad, we investigated the relationship between air travel emissions and publicly available bibliometric measurements. We found no relationship between air travel emissions and metrics of academic productivity including hla (h-index adjusted for academic age and discipline). There was, however, a relationship between emissions and salary that remains significant even when controlling for seniority. Finally, based on the premise that academics studying topics related to sustainability may have greater responsibility or motivation to reduce their emissions, we coded 165 researchers in our sample as either "Green" or "Not-green." We found no significant difference between Green and Not-green academics in total air travel emissions, or in the types of emissions that might be easiest to avoid. Taken together, this preliminary evidence suggests that there may be opportunities, especially for academics who study topics related to climate and sustainability, to reduce their emissions from air travel while maintaining productive careers. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.